The East Wing of the White House was turned into a pile of rubble last week in a hasty and brutal demolition that shocked the country. Now it's time to build President Donald Trump's big, stupid, gold-plated bribe palace, but no one knows exactly what that entails.
New York Times tried to find outlooking at Trump's plans waved around in the Oval Office – posted on the White House website and a physical model of the ballroom.
And guess what? None of them are like the other.
To be honest, of course not. All this is done on the fly, subject to Trump's daily whims. Ballroom could hold 650 people, or maybe 1350 – a mystery! It might be worth it $200 millionMay be $300 million. Wait, scratch this – this $350 million. Definitely $350 million.
It may seem strange to you that construction is already starting on a building that has multiple floor plans, where one version of the ballroom is almost twice as big as the other, and the price increases by about $50 million every time you turn around.
You're a fool! You chop! You just don't understand how construction works! Let White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt educate you.
“With any construction project comes changes. And we informed you all, we kept you updated on this project. We showed you renderings,” she said. said.
Well, yes. The fact is that there are renderings plural that's the problem. All we really know for sure is that it will be 90,000 square feetor nearly twice the size of the White House, which is 55,000 square feet—at least until Trump demolished the East Wing.
Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy's garden left tooas are two magnolia trees that were planted in the 1940s to honor former presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Why not? Trump doesn't want to honor past presidents. He only wants to glorify himself.
Even small details inconsistent Trump's plans for the ballroom include the number of decorative columns and staircases. There's also a slight problem with renderings having physically impossible elements, such as a staircase to nowhere and overlapping windows.
Honestly, it looks a lot like someone just used artificial intelligence to create a crappy replica of Mar-a-Lago.
Perhaps all these plans look like haphazard, slightly different versions of golden bullshit because McCrery Architects, who are designing the ballroom, mainly builds churches– not ballrooms. However, James McCrary, the owner of the firm, is a far-right religious fanatic and also designs buildings. for Hillsdale CollegeThe right's favorite ultra-conservative school.
But Trump knows that the companies showering him with money for this project don't really care about the aesthetics of the ballroom or who's building it; it's just another opportunity to curry favor with the president.
And Trump certainly doesn't care about quality. He revels gilded everythingking in the world the most tasteless castle. He has created a perfect ecosystem of fraud without oversight or public participation.
So what do we get? A comically poorly designed piece of junk on the site of the People's House.
